Our Response to COVID
At Carolinas Home Care Agency, Inc (CHCA), our mission is to provide opportunities for the consumer to live, learn, and grow by offering services and supports in which individuals can achieve their potential.
Our client and staff’s health and well-being are our TOP priority. In light of the current global pandemic we have modified our universal standard precautions as recommended by the CDC.
Carolinas Home Care Agency, Inc. maintains an organized, effective facility-wide program designed to systematically identify and reduce the risk of acquiring and transmitting infections among residents, visitors, and healthcare workers. This program involves the collaboration of many programs and services within the facility and is designed to meet the intent of regulatory and accrediting agencies.
Carolinas Home Care Agency, Inc. incorporates recommendations, guidelines and regulations from multiple agencies including Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Centers for Medicaid Services (CMS), and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Infection prevention activities, policies and procedures are also developed based upon guidance from other advisory committees and professional organizations, including but not limited to:
Our client and staff’s health and well-being are our TOP priority. In light of the current global pandemic we have modified our universal standard precautions as recommended by the CDC.
Carolinas Home Care Agency, Inc. maintains an organized, effective facility-wide program designed to systematically identify and reduce the risk of acquiring and transmitting infections among residents, visitors, and healthcare workers. This program involves the collaboration of many programs and services within the facility and is designed to meet the intent of regulatory and accrediting agencies.
Carolinas Home Care Agency, Inc. incorporates recommendations, guidelines and regulations from multiple agencies including Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Centers for Medicaid Services (CMS), and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Infection prevention activities, policies and procedures are also developed based upon guidance from other advisory committees and professional organizations, including but not limited to:
- Healthcare Infection Prevention/Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)
- Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
- Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
- Association for Professionals in Infection prevention/control and Epidemiology (APIC)
About Coronavirus (COVID-19):
According to the CDC, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory illness that can spread from person to person (close contact/respiratory droplets). The virus that causes COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus that was first identified during an investigation into an outbreak in Wuhan, China. The virus is thought to spread mainly between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet) through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs and/or sneezes. It also may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads. Patients with COVID-19 have had mild to severe respiratory illness with symptoms of fever, cough, and shortness of breath.